Gastroenterology Week

Crohn Disease - Endoscopic camera pill proves to be effective tool for diagnosing Crohn disease

Disease Associations - Overweight patients bear a higher risk for developing acute liver failure

Drug Safety - High doses of ibuprofen can cause significant GI bleeding despite its safety profile

Gastroenterology - Infectious diarrhea is a major cause of childhood mortality in developing countries

Liver Cancer - Synthetic oleanolic acid reduced the growth of liver tumors in animal model

Adverse Drug Reaction - Patients develop acute liver failure after receiving amoxicillin/clavulanate

Allergy & Immunology - Cryoglobulins may support hepatitis C virus chronicity

Allergy & Immunology - Donor HLA alleles may control hepatitis C virus spread to liver grafts

Anti-inflammatories - Lipoxin pathyways offer treatment options for diseases involving inflammation

Apoptosis - Bile acids affected cell growth and death in human colonic adenocarcinoma cells

Hepatocellular Carcinoma - Recent findings in hepatocellular carcinoma described

Apoptosis - Eicosapentenoic acid induced apoptosis in human pancreatic cancer cells

Bioterrorism - U.S. grants $20 million for developing compounds to treat radiation damage

Business & Finance - Genomics company reports first quarter net loss of $16.7 million

Campylobacter -  C. jejuni mobilizes Ca²⁺ from host intracellular stores

Cancer Diagnosis - Gastrointestinal stromal tumors should be considered as new lesions

Cancer Prevention - Long-term interferon therapy for chronic hepatitis C prevents liver cancer

Virology - Recent findings in virology provide new insights

Cancer Prevention - Researchers provide details of new studies and findings in the area of cancer prevention

Cancer Risk Factors - Meat consumption correlated to colon and rectal cancers

Cancer Risk Factors - Polymorphism in 5' flanking region of SMYD3 linked to risk of human cancers

Cancer Therapy - CoFactor, in combination with 5-FU and oxaliplatin, may be effective against colorectal cancer

Cancer Therapy - IRFAPA recommended over PRFA therapy if patients' conditions permit laparotomy

Cancer Therapy - Photodynamic therapy with mTHPBC is safe and feasible treatment for liver metastases

Cancer Therapy - Researchers report details of new studies and findings in the area of cancer therapy

Cancer Therapy - Tumor types selected for phase II trials of Coramsine

Carcinogenesis - Interleukin-1 receptor antagonist gene polymorphism linked to colorectal cancer

Chemotherapy - 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine sensitizes hepatoma and pancreatic cancer cell lines

Chemotherapy - Etoposide, leucovorin, and 5-fluorouracil used to treat resected gastric cancer

Cholera - FlhG and FlhF regulate class I and III V. cholerae flagellar transcription

Chronic Liver Disease - Serum hyaluronic acid relays the progression of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis

Cirrhosis - Study pinpoints genetic and environmental factors of primary biliary cirrhosis

Clinical Trials - Dolastatin-10 ineffective in phase II clinical trials

Colon Cancer - Aberrant cytochrome c oxidase subunit I expression is biomarker for increased colon cancer risk

Colon Cancer - Colorectal cancer treatment is not consistent between races and ethnicities

Colon Cancer - Findings in colon cancer provide new insights

Colon Cancer - Scientists develop colon cancer blood test by quantifying cancer gene mutations

Colorectal Cancer - Colorectal cancer screening research, recommendations presented at European cancer conference

Colorectal Cancer - Epidemiological features of colorectal cancer in Iran analyzed

Complementary & Alternative Medicine - Benzyl isothiocyanate inhibits jejunal function at levels needed to kill intestinal worms

Complementary & Alternative Medicine - Seventy milligrams of zinc weekly reduces mortality in young children

Crohn Disease - Remicade data show promise for children afflicted with Crohn disease

DNA Research - CpG motifs of bacterial DNA contribute to perpetuation of chronic intestinal inflammation

Diabetes Therapy - Patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and type 2 diabetes benefit from nateglinide

Diagnostics - Biomarkers help researchers stage fibrosis in patients infected with hepatitis C

Diagnostics - CD13 immunostaining used as diagnostic marker for hepatocellular carcinoma

Diagnostics - CT and FDG-PET image fusion impacted treatment planning and management of esophageal carcinoma

Diagnostics - Diagnostics company launches homocysteine on its BN systems

Diagnostics - Early detection of hepatocellular carcinoma contributed to treatment efficacy

Diagnostics - Evaluation of telomerase subunits in urine as a biomarker of bladder cancer

Diagnostics - Feasibility of acoustic radiation force impulse imaging of abdomen confirmed

Diagnostics - Findings in diagnostics provide new insights

Diagnostics - MAP infection in ruminants may be implicated in the pathogenesis of Morbus Crohn disease

Diagnostics - Modified H2S test rapidly detects fecal contamination in large numbers of water samples

Diet & Exercise - Dietary alpha-linolenic acid increases brain but not heart and liver docosahexaenoic acid levels

Disease Associations - Lung cancer metastasis induced acute pancreatitis